The life of Sir Charles [Carl von Linné] Linnaeus: a copious list of his works, and a biographical sketch of the life of his son
London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
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London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1788. Quarto, coloured half title, 41 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, expertly respined with red label, marbled boards, all edges coloured, a very good copy. Caspar Stoll (1725-1791) was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completing Pieter Cramer's De Uitlandsche Kapellen. He also..... More
Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1788. Quarto, coloured half title, 29 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, expertly respined, all edges coloured, a very good copy Caspar Stoll (1725-1791) was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completing Pieter Cramer's De Uitlandsche Kapellen. He also published six..... More
London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Large quarto, 318 uncoloured plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, a few flecks, internally some light spotting. Lilian Medland married Tom Iredale and illustrated his Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1953 and Birds of New Guinea, 1956. More
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy,very scarce in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood p...... More
Utrecht: Otthonis de Vries, (1693. second edition). Octavo, 13 folding engraved plates, text illustrations, Early quarter velum spine and marbled boards, uncut. Text in Latin, the later edition with uncoloured plates. More
Utrecht: Chez Guillaume de Walcheren, 1682. Octavo, 13 engraved (some folding) plates. Contemporary full polished calf and raised bands, some wear, bookplate, Text in French. More
London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried..... More
London: Tryckt I Berlingska Boktryckeriet, 1862. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked with new endpapers. More
Amsterdam: Erven Houtuin, 1781. Quarto, uncoloured engraved half title, three handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary (publisher's?) boards and red calf spine with all edges uncut and coloured, a superb copy contained in a modern Solander box. Dutch and French text in parallel column. Johannes van Lier (1726-1799) was a wealthy Dutch..... More
Amsterdam: C. G. Ven der Post, 1857. Octavo, four uncoloured folded lithographic plates. binder's cloth, paper title on spine, library stamps, scarce. The Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. Willem Vrolik (1801-863) was a Dutch anatomist and..... More
Colombo: H. R Cottle, 1921. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, folding map. Publisher's dark cloth, slight wear to spine, two bookplates, a very good copy. More
London: Henry G Bohn, 1837. Quarto, Contemporary half morroco and marbled boards, rebacked. The three volume text bound in one. There are no plates. More
London: William Smith, 1848. Quarto, four lithographic plates (three handcoloured). Red box with label, the upper cover title completely detached, the plates loose, chipped and edge-stained. With a previous bookseller pencil note " Remainder publication text and four plates (one uncoloured) only" More
London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, [iv] 65 handcoloured engraved plates, without advertisements. Later nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, top edge gilt but other edges uncut, apart from some paper browning and a few spots all the plates well coloured, a handsome exceptionally large copy. White was chief surgeon..... More
London: Editions Renard, (2002. facsimile). Folio, 65 plates in two states, coloured and uncoloured, and vignette view from the original title-page; handsome green morocco (in a trial binding, similar to that ultimately adopted but the green morocco a darker shade), gilt edges, enlarged format, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard..... More
Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1917]. Sextodecimo, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, very good copy, scarce. More
London: 1768. Quarto, three uncoloured engraved folding plates. Modern full brown morocoo with labels, all edges uncut, a fine clean copy. More
London: John Van Voorst, (1859. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, uncoloured frontispiece of the author with the author's signature. Handsome green half morocco and green cloth, elaborately gilt spines, top edges gilt, a fine set. More